As a long-term software developer, author and contributor to many development books, Heow Goodman firmly believes that functional technologies such as Lisp and Clojure are required for unlocking our full potential. Creating software is his passion and premier career choice rather than simply a stepping stone on the way to management. His personal goal is to condense centuries of productivity into the mere decades of a human lifespan.

Goodman is a founding member of Functional SC and principal organizer for a decade at LispNYC.